Connect the three images. The person on the left contributed to the motto on the right which in turn is responsible for the visual on the right.Answer: King Louis XV once famously said "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge) which the 617 Squadron of RAF (famously known as the dam busters) adopted as their motto. The last image is the breach of the Eder dam as part of Operation Chastise. Mekie, Raghu, Debasish, Kaushik, anon, Krithi, Renuka + Anand and Karthik got it. Well done.
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617 Squadron, RAF, "The Dambusters"
Dambusters
King Louis XV
"After me, the flood" ("Après moi, le déluge")
Operation Chastise
The phrase “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the deluge") is attributed to the King of France Louis XV (1710-1774) (the king - pic left, the phrase - pic middle)
LOUIS XV, APRES MOI LA DELUGE, DAM BUSTERS.
The Dam Busters. During WW II a special squadron of British pilots was gathered by Wing Commander Guy P. Gibson called the 617 Squadron (later called the Dam Busters or the Dam Raiders). Their targets were the Mohne, Eder, and Sorpe Dams on the Ruhr in Germany. They successfully breached the Mohne and Eder Dams, devastating Germany, but lost fifty-three men in the process.
Krithi
Louis XV - Apres moi le deluge (after me the flood).
Motto of the 617 squadron of RAF - The Dambusters.
Image on right - Eder dam breached by RAF in 1943.
Louis XV (After me comes the deluge), Dam Busters, One of the dams breached in Operation Chastise.
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